A confident smile with some finality does the trick.Huh. The times I've seen someone say anything like "I'm a heathen", it only seems to pique the interest of the door-to-door religious salespeople.
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A confident smile with some finality does the trick.Huh. The times I've seen someone say anything like "I'm a heathen", it only seems to pique the interest of the door-to-door religious salespeople.
So far I have not come across anyone from JW who tries to contradict me when we discuss. because when they ask me, can we talk with you about God, I always say yes, of course, you can come in. or if it is on the street I stop and we can talk even for an hour. Because if they quote something from their bible, I look a the Buddhist texts and see if what they say contradicts Buddhism, or if it is similar in thoughts. then when I have told them that I do follow Buddhism, and ask if it's ok we look at both religions in comparison, they smile and say yes we can. sometimes if I meet them on the street we go to a local cafè and take a chat there.
Its all about sharing and learning from each others
Back in the UK i had a sign on the gate, "Neighborhood Watch Area, unsolicited callers will be reported to the police"
When a JW group called, i politely asked if they had read the sign. F they replied 'yes' usually with some other tripe to follow, i reached for the phone and began to dial. It is amazing how quick they left.
If they said 'no' i asked if they would please read it and closed the door.
I believe there is nothing more ignorant and annoying than disturbing a family meal just to "spread the word "
Why? God's too busy?We may find their method annoying but they are just doing what all Christians are asked to do, 'go forth and spread the Gospel'.
When I was growing up in the church, I had no reason to believe that I wasn’t a Christian. But as I began to process the church’s doctrines, the less any of them made sense to me. I had a million questions, but my church had no answers.I believe it is too bad you weren't a Christian, you would have known better.
I studied with them until they abandoned me but after each session the Holy Spirit would say "That isn't right" and I would have to study my Bible some more to find out why it wasn't right. It did get me started studying the Bible though.
I, for one, quite seriously object to people who think that I am too stupid to know what I think, and that I should accept their nonsense over whatever nonsense I prefer.I've never really understood the level of hostility doorknockers engender, and the weird revenge fantasy-type things people make up to do to them. "Thanks, but I'm not interested", has always been perfectly adequate to get various religious door knockers I've had to leave. Frankly, I find the next door neighbours' tweens who kick a ball into my yard and knock on the door asking to retrieve it multiple times a weekend far worse.
IMPE, most door knockers aren't like that though. They're offering their opinion, not trying to force it on anyone.I, for one, quite seriously object to people who think that I am too stupid to know what I think, and that I should accept their nonsense over whatever nonsense I prefer.
You know, if I met a woman I didn't know on the street and said, "You know, honey, your makeup isn't really working for you, and your taste in clothes...well, really!" I frankly think she'd be quite correct to knock me upside the head with her purse. If I told a man I didn't know that he needed to fire his tailor, I think he'd be right to consider my teeth a target. Even if it's somebody I know well, I believe in the absolute right of even my best friends to the privacy of their own thoughts and beliefs, and to be free of my trying to take them from them, and replace them with my own.
It is a repugnant practice, and one that I would have thought any really decent person would know better than to get involved in.
Emergency workers typically work in the teeth of a real, objective, identifiable threat. I don't think that an imagined danger, 2000 years old and still not yielding any objective evidence of itself, doesn't quite measure up. As a result, I certainly wouldn't put you in the same category, nor give you the same respect.We liken our work to that of emergency service workers who sound the warning of an impending disaster. They do it through the media, but just in case someone is missed, they go door to door to sound the warning in person, so everyone knows what is coming. They can’t force people to get out of the danger zone, but they can tell them how.
The calm before a storm, an earthquake or a tsunami can lull people into a false sense of security. We believe that a great catastrophe is coming that the world at large does not expect.....that is why we call. That is our only motive....to save lives.
But why would I offer my opinion to someone I don't know about a matter that is personal to them? I would not do so about their dress, their makeup, their choice of home décor, or anything else unless I was specifically and pointedly asked. So why would I offer my opinion on somebody else's beliefs? Is that somehow different?IMPE, most door knockers aren't like that though. They're offering their opinion, not trying to force it on anyone.
Yes, Deeje, And we love God too! Is that why I dust my feet as I go back into my house?
(I don't really, I leave the judging to God)
Emergency workers typically work in the teeth of a real, objective, identifiable threat. I don't think that an imagined danger, 2000 years old and still not yielding any objective evidence of itself, doesn't quite measure up. As a result, I certainly wouldn't put you in the same category, nor give you the same respect.
Think about what you've said: time doesn't matter to God, yet you suppose that all this stuff is to happen "imminently." Please note that "imminent" is a time-oriented word, but could mean in 2 seconds, an hour and a quarter, 6 centuries, or 37.6 squidzillion years. Or even never! And you've got nothing in your kit bag that can help you understand which is more likely. Untestable beliefs are really easy to hold, but impossible to justify to anyone else.That is entirely up to you...God does not operate in earth time. 2,000 years or 20,000, makes no difference to a timeless Being. I believe there is a "real identifiable threat" that was penned by Jesus' apostles to occur in our day.....you can choose not to believe it.
Your decisions are your to make.
99% of that they do is verygood work for the world to be better.
How many childrens have died because of JW?
Those mettings i been to with JW was all very much about God and how to be good christians, not about evil plans
But why would I offer my opinion to someone I don't know about a matter that is personal to them? I would not do so about their dress, their makeup, their choice of home décor, or anything else unless I was specifically and pointedly asked. So why would I offer my opinion on somebody else's beliefs? Is that somehow different?
Think about what you've said: time doesn't matter to God, yet you suppose that all this stuff is to happen "imminently." Please note that "imminent" is a time-oriented word, but could mean in 2 seconds, an hour and a quarter, 6 centuries, or 37.6 squidzillion years. Or even never! And you've got nothing in your kit bag that can help you understand which is more likely. Untestable beliefs are really easy to hold, but impossible to justify to anyone else.
Nope. A young mother of four dropped in the ER for an emergency delivery (with no prenatal care) began to bleed out. Her husband didn't want her transfused. We did it anyway. Within 30 minutes a JW lawyer from 300 miles away called threatening a lawsuit. Her death would have left 5 orphans and ruined my young OB/GYN's career.
They came to my house for three days running at 7 AM. You bet I told them to get off my property.
Answer the door with a “Hail Satan”What do you say when members of a religious group (such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses) knock on your door, evangelising?
I currently politely say “sorry, I already have a religion” and leave it as that
But the next time it happens I think I’m going to say something outrageous such as “I don’t need religion, I have a direct line to God” (don’t worry, I don’t believe I have a direct line to God!) or make up a religion and tell them I belong to that
Answer the door with a “Hail Satan”
Oh and offer juice and snacks.
Hahaha! What a legend!
I was reading a forum post once and about this same OP topic.
A woman there said she'd repeatedly asked JW's who knocked to not return. She was Christian and resented the idea that someone would enter her property thinking the resident must be damned.
She said that one day when in her living room doing housework she saw a large van pull into her horseshoe shaped drive. They were JW's.
Fed up, she undresses, closes the light blocking drapes, lights the candle set on her dining room table, grabs a butcher knife from the knife block on her kitchen counter and goes to the front door and waits for their ring of the doorbell. The house being completely dark now but for the soft candle glow behind her.
She said she opened the door buck naked and holding up the knife. The mouths of the women dressed in their Sunday best fell open, eyes grew wide.
The woman of the house looked over her shoulder then and shouts, "Honey? The sacrifices to Satan have arrived."
She turns back to those ladies , steps back, opens the door wider so they can see the candle array behind her, smiles and says, please do come in we've been expecting you.
At the time of that post she closed by saying she hadn't been bothered again and going on ten years.
Oh, if only there were video.
Got a citation for that claim? A recent study perhaps? Because you can literally say that about almost all medicine: people can die, for any number of reasons after receiving medical treatment. But just because you could die from a surgery is not a reason to avoid a surgery to remove an infected appendix. Everything has a risk. Even walking down the street.Blood does not always save lives...in fact I will wager that more people die after a blood transfusion than ever die without one.
I’d like to put forth my own wager. Bloodless medicines arose to service the need of JWs refusing blood in the first place. Commerce 101. You guys had a need, some bright spark filled it.Bloodless medicine is practiced in many hospitals around the world. Whole hospitals are dedicated to bloodless medicine. What does that tell you? They are not our hospitals.
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